Ride Like The Wind

Ok, today it was just “ride in the wind.” 

 Joe and I took off on Hugo and Otoelene.  Joe said with the wind gusting to 30 mph, that he didn’t want to ride where there were any dead trees.  But if I had listened to that, we would have never left the barn. 

We ended up doing and hour loop around the farm.  Joe was quite the gentleman and got all of the gates. 

Hugo out walked Otoelene as usual.  We had to do some trotting to keep up.

We had a couple of water crossings and lots of mud.  Hugo went through everything like a champ.

There was even some hill work.

Joe has been a little reluctant to ride Hugo around the cattle, not knowing how the cattle would act or how Hugo would respond.  This group of heifers can get a bit silly acting sometimes.  Since I was on Otoelene, I said I could block the cattle from Hugo if need be. 

But he did fine, even pinning his ears at them a little bit.  

Another nice ride despite the wind, and no trees fell on us.